Marcus McElhenney
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Born | July 27, 1981 Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania,U.S. | (age42)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marcus McElhenney(born July 27, 1981) is anAmericancoxswainand attorney. He won a bronze medal in themen's eightat the2008 Summer Olympicsbefore a career in law and politics.
Life and career
[edit]McElhenney first competed internationally in 2001, representing the United States in Linz, Austria at the Nations' Cup (Under 23 World Championships) where he coxed the men's eight to a silver medal. McElhenney was invited to try out for the 2002 Under 23 World Championship team.
His first major international success at the senior/Olympic level came at the2003 World Rowing ChampionshipsinMilanwhere he won a gold medal in the coxed four event. A year later at the2004 World Rowing Championships,he won a bronze medal in the same event. At2005 World Rowing Championshipshe coxed both the eights and fours, winning a gold and a silver medal respectively, the first US athlete to have earned two medals at the same World Rowing Championships. In 2007 won both the eights and coxed fours at the 2007USRowingchampionships.
McElhenney grew up inDelaware County, Pennsylvaniaand graduated fromTemple Universityin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the cousin of actorRob McElhenney.
He served as principal architect of the coxswain curriculum at Sparks Rowing, asocial businessthat provides the largest amount of coxswain specific programming in the world.[1]McElhenney graduated from the University of San Francisco School of law, and he currently practices law in California.
In 2017, he joined theTrump administrationas part of the now-defunctWhite HouseOffice of American Innovation.When he took the job, he was quoted as saying "Trump is hands down the greatest president we will ever have in our lifetime. He's a train with no brakes, and now I'm the conductor!"[2]As of 2023, he was working as an attorney in California.[3]
Competitive history
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2003 | World Championships | ![]() |
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2004 | World Championships | ![]() |
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2005 | World Championships | 1 | ![]() |
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2006 | World Championships | ![]() |
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2007 | U.S. Rowing Club & Elite National Championships | ![]() |
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2008 | Olympic Games | ![]() |
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2009 | World Championships | ![]() | |||
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2011 | Pan American Games | ![]() |
References
[edit]- ^"About Us".Sparks Consulting.
- ^"Olympic Coxswain to Join Trump Administration as Associate Press Officer".row2k.com.
- ^"Marcus N. McElhenney".chdlawyers.com.RetrievedJune 7,2023.
External links
[edit]- Marcus McElhenneyatWorld Rowing
- Marcus McElhenney at USRowing siteat theWayback Machine(archived August 28, 2008)
- Marcus Mc Elhenney at 2008 Olympics siteat theWayback Machine(archived September 8, 2008)
- Marcus Mc ElhenneyatOlympics.com
- Marcus McElhenneyatOlympics at Sports-Reference.com(archived)
- 1981 births
- Living people
- American male rowers
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in rowing
- World Rowing Championships medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in rowing
- People from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
- Rowers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Sportspeople from Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games